§20-16-5. Duties of participants.
It is recognized that the adventure and recreational
activities described in this article are hazardous to participants,
regardless of all feasible safety measures which can be taken.

Each participant in an adventure or recreational activity
expressly assumes the risk of and legal responsibility for any
injury, loss or damage to person or property which results from
participation in an activity. Each participant shall have the sole
individual responsibility for knowing the range of his or her own
ability to participate in a particular adventure or recreational
activity, and it shall be the duty of each participant to act
within the limits of the participant's own ability, to heed all
posted warnings, to act in accordance with the instructions of any
employee of the non-profit youth organization or provider, to
perform an adventure or recreational activity only in an area or
facility designated by the nonprofit youth organization or provider
and to refrain from acting in a manner which may cause or
contribute to the injury of anyone. There is a rebuttable
presumption that any participant under the age of fourteen is
incapable of comparative negligence or assumption of the risk.
There is an irrebuttable presumption that any participant under the
age of seven is incapable of comparative negligence or assumption
of the risk. Any participant over the age of fourteen will be
subject to the common law presumptions as to their acts and or
omissions.

A participant involved in an accident shall not depart from
the area or facility where the adventure or recreational activity
took place without leaving personal identification, including name
and address, or without notifying the proper authorities, or
without obtaining assistance when that person knows or reasonably
should know that any other person involved in the accident is in
need of medical or other assistance.